Delight vs. Gloating — What's the Difference?

Great pleasure; joy

To feel or express great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction

Something that gives great pleasure or enjoyment

The act of gloating.

To take great pleasure or joy

A feeling of great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction.

To give great pleasure or joy

Present participle of gloat

To please greatly

The act of one who gloats.

Joy; pleasure.

Malicious satisfaction

Something that gives great joy or pleasure.

To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.

(intransitive) To have or take great pleasure.

A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.

That which gives great pleasure or delight.

Licentious pleasure; lust.

To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear.

To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; - followed by an infinitive, or by in.

A feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction;

Something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness;

Give pleasure to or be pleasing to;

Take delight in;

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